Marie von Clausewitz (née von Brühl) (1779-1836)
Behind every great man there's a great woman. Clausewitz's ambitious romance with Marie von Brühl, whose family and social position far outshone Clausewitz's, led to marriage and to a famous intellectual partnership crucial to the evolution of On War. After her husband's death in 1831, Marie edited the book and wrote a preface to it.
MARIE'S PREFACE TO THE
FIRST EDITION
(From the 1873 English translation by COL J.J. Graham -- The German original
is HERE)